Chu Ching-wu

Date of Birth	12-February-1941
Place of Birth	Changsha (Hunan, China)
Nationality	United States of America, Taiwan
Profession	Scientist
Paul Chu is a Chinese-born American physicist specializing in superconductivity, magnetism, and dielectrics. He is a Professor of physics and T.L.L. Temple Chair of Science in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at the University of Houston. He was the President of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2009. In 1987 he was one of the first scientists to demonstrate high-temperature superconductivity.

Awards by Chu Ching-wu

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Comstock Prize in Physics	(For discovery of superconductivity in yttrium barium copper oxide and similar compounds above the boiling point of nitrogen -- a major scientific and technological breakthrough.)
National Medal of Science for Physical Science	(For his wide-ranging congributions in achieving stable superconductivity at -290 degrees F, above the critical temperature of liquid nitrogen (-321 degrees F); and for his particiaption in the discovery of another superconducting compound, this one stable at a higher temperature (-243 de4grees F) and not using rare-earth elements.)